Antonio Crisafulli is a Cardiovascular Physiologist. He leads the Laboratory of Sport Physiology of the University of Cagliari (Italy). He teaches Human Physiology at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Cagliari. His fields of research are exercise cardiovascular physiology and physio-pathology, assessment of physical capacity and cardiovascular response during exercise in healthy and in patients suffering from cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. He has published more than 70 papers in this area.